Student Bulletin (Janaury 28 to February 1, 2013)

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Student Bulletin

M I DD EL S C OH LOIssue # 19

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Upcoming Events in the Middle School PowerSchool Grade Update

January 21 to 25, 2013

January 30 to Feb. 03 AMIS Band (in Myanmar)

February 11 to 15 Classroom Without Walls (CWW)

25 No Classes (EDSA Revolution Holiday

26 No Classes (Faculty In-Service)

27 to Mar. 01 Grade 8 Course Registration

March 04 to 08 Grade 5 to 7 Course Registration

05 MS Academic Bowl

07 Early Student Release

18 to 22 English Honors Testing

Feb. 8 - Progress Reports Distributio

January 28 to February 1, 2013

Monday, January 28 Regular ScheduleTuesday, January 29 Regular ScheduleWednesday, January 30 Student Late Start/Regular Schedule

Grade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.)Gr. 5 - HB; Gr. 6 - LT; Gr. 7 - FAT; Gr. 8 - Lofthouse C

Thursday, January 31 Regular ScheduleFriday, February 1 Regular Schedule

Dear Students:

We welcome back the AMIS orchestra/mixed choir students and wish good luck to the AMIS band students who will be traveling this week. We are proud to have you representing ISM abroad.

3rd Season sports try-outs begin this week. See the bulletin for details on Badminton, Softball, Touch Rugby and Track &Field.

Calling all designers! There is a neat opportunity to enter a design contest. ISM is a member of EARCOS (East Asia RegionCouncil of Overseas Schools), an organization that supports international schools in our region of the world. EARCOS is inviting students to redesign their logo. Speak with Ms. Jacobs for more information.

It is Academic Bowl time again. Tryouts start next week. For those of you who love trivia, see Mrs. Birchenall for moreinformation.

Sincerely,

Mr. Gillespie and Ms. Sayson

Please note that the MSParty (Grade 5 to 8) onFebruary 8, 2013 hasbeen rescheduled to

March 15, 2013.


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3rd

Season sports are fast approaching (Badminton, Softball and Track & Field) see attachedflyers for tryouts and practice schedule. You can also access this information via the ATACblog schedules pages.

http://atac.ism-

online.org/schedules/hs/http://atac.ism-online.org/schedules/tryouts/

The housing letter for IASAS Track and Field April 10 -14 is now available on the ATAC blog.Please consider housing for Track; it is going to be a fantastic event. Due to the spring breakand teams arriving the day we return to school April 10, we need to ensure all 150 housingassignments are finalized prior to the break. Your help with early submission to confirm host-ing would be greatly appreciated. For more general information about housing at IASAS tourna-ments see the housing and hosting page.http://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/

2nd

season MS and HS sports awards will be held Feb 19th;

MS awards at the LT from 3:15-4pmand HS at the lofthouse from 5:30pm. Athletes and parents from all 2

ndseason teams are invited to

attend.

ISM will host IASAS Tennis Jan 30-Feb 3. A big THANK-YOU to ISM families that agreed to host

an IASAS Tennis athlete. I am pleased to say that all slots are now confirmed. You should have re-ceived your information letter with all details this week with guest names/pick up times etc. Letterswere distributed to your children via the divisional offices. For more general information about hous-ing at IASAS tournaments see the housing and hosting page.http://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/

IASAS Tennis matches start next Thursday Jan 31st. The schedule is very busy with 204 matches tobe played over the 3 days. To help you understand the schedule, a match consists of 3 singlesgames S1, S2, S3 and 2 doubles games D1 and D2.There is also an 8 th or alternate player for eachteam who plays matches as a part of the tournament. The alternate player can be used in case ofinjury/illness in singles or doubles if needed. To win the match you need to win 3 out of the 5 games.It is a round robin format with all teams playing each other by Saturday lunch time and then Satur-day afternoon the finals are played based on the round robin results.

All 8 courts on our new roof facility plus our 2 courts at the covered court will be utilized for the tour-nament so there will be plenty of great tennis matches to watch during the 3 days. For those of youthat are unaware or are new to ISM, both our ISM boys and girls teams are defending IASAS cham-pions and our girls team is going for a 3

rdwin in a row this year. The event will be live streamed via

www.iasas.asia and IASAS tournaments are wonderful events tohost and we look forward to putting on a great event for the visitingteams in our new facility. We hope for great support from our ISMcommunity during the event to cheer on our teams as they do bat-tle against the IASAS schools.

Whilst we are hosting tennis our other 2nd

season teams will bebattling it out at the following venues for their season endingIASAS Championships and we wish them the best of luck. Youcan follow their progress via live score sites at www.iasas.asia

Rugby/Touch at Kuala Lumpur Basketball at Singapore Swimming at TaipeiPlease come along and check out the action when we host ourIASAS friends from Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei andBangkok!

From the Athletics & Activities Office
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Our varsity girls basketball team qualified for the ISSA league semifinals and played on Tuesday vs.South Ville. The girls had a great win 70-52 and will now play in the final next week (date and time to beadvised). Well done also to the Varsity boys Rugby team who took out the local league final last Satur-day with a thumping 55-5 win over Faith. They then played a tune up game vs. local league team theVipers and had another big win 64-15.

Hardeman Cup tournament games will be played at Faith Saturday for our JV boys and Varsity girls/boys teams. Our JV and MS rugby teams play in the local league finals tomorrow at the HS field from11:30am; come out to see the action. On the MS field we are hosting the ISM JV and Varsity Touch Invi-tational. JV division is played from 8am-11:30am and the Varsity division in the afternoon from 1pm toapproximately 5:30pm.

Our MS B tennis team made up of grade 5/6 players remains undefeated for the season and play Brenttomorrow to try and keep the winning streak alive. The team has already qualified for finals along withthe MS girls tennis team with finals to be played on Feb 16

that ISM.

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATAC program is to subscribe via RSS feed to the ATAC blogand also to follow via twitter (see twitter feed on the blog home page). Each Monday I will post theweeks happenings and highlight important events for students and parents information on the ATAC

blog and in the regular Friday parent bulletins.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule information) Information about all mid-week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog. Please note the game scheduledoes change often due to involvement with many local schools so please check the page regu-larly to find out the latest information of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Click onschedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the power school secure site http://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/

You will need your power school user name and password to access the game schedule pdf.

HS Student registration for ATAC activities: (new for school year 12-13) A Google doc registration isnow available for all HS students who will take part in any ATAC seasonal sports teams, MUN and Cul-tural Convention programs. Please take the time to complete this online registration for activities thatyou plan on joining this school year. Please access the form via the HS Student Registration tab found

under the Helpful Shortcuts bar on the ATAC blog home page. *please note this is for HS students onlyand you must use your school email address to access the link. Personal gmail or hotmail addresses willnot allow you to access the page.

BEARCAT DEN: http://atac.ism-online.org/bearcat-den/

Our Bearcat Den is open for business, please drop by to check out the range of Bearcat products. Wehave a great team of volunteers who run the den and are always looking for more people to help out. Ifyou are interested in joining a fantastic group please contact any of our den members during den open-ing hours. We have a new volunteer coordinator thanks so much to Carolyn for stepping forward to takeon this role. If youre interested in joining the Den volunteers please contact Carolyn Ching for [email protected]. We are always looking for new volunteers and encourage parents from ES/MS to join our group.

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den: Wed and Fridays from 11:30am 1:00pm and each after-noon from 2:30-4pm.

Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athletics/Activities
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Earcos Logo Design Contest

East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS) is having alogo design contest for all East Asian schools who are members of itsorganization. ISM students (Grades 5- 12) are invited to submit en-

tries and the winner receives USD 1,000.00.

PLEASE go to earcoslogo.jimdo.com for more information or talk toMs. Morgan Jacobs!

Please come by the elementary library to see a fun collaborativeproject between Ms.Nat's preschool class and Ms. Morgan Jacob's Art

Mud (Grade 7 and 8) class. Preschoolers designed and drew theirown creatures and the middle school artists sculpted them in clay!

There is also a little comment box with a question to answer, so stu-dents can "critique" the work. Fun and educational way to end yourclass five minutes early and take a WALK!

Art Mud Class: CRAZY CREATURES!

The Middle School Choirs had a

festive weekend last Saturday,participating in the first Choir Fes-tival. The day included fun singinggames, activities and concludedwith some performances. High-lights of the day included studentssinging open mic during lunchtime and special performancesfrom the Concert Choir. Thank you

to Ms. Hausman, Ms. Grev and allthe 90+ students that participated!-Guime Odendaal

Middle School Choir


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Do you know lots of interesting facts and general knowledge?Are you fast on the buzzers? Do you like Are you Smarter

than a 5thGrader?

THEN COME TO Academic Bowl Tryouts!!

WHERE - Room P046 (Mrs. Birchenalls classroom)

WHEN - Thursday 7th February and/or Friday 8th February3:05 P.M. 3:30 P.M. (sharp).

The successful students will represent ISM at the next Aca-demic Bowl competition which is to be held here at ISM on

Tuesday 5th

March.

All Middle School students are very welcometo come to the tryout sessions!!!

Middle School Academic Bowl Tryouts


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